A lot of parents just hope their kid will find a way home
ugh!

I don't worry. Just go about my day and if I need to go somewhere, I just ask the kid for his/her parent's number and tell them where I am taking their kid.

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

Private school, kid lives 30 minutes away. I don't want to rearrange my day to spend an hour driving someone else's kid home after I've hosted a sleepover. Parents should have declined the invitation if it was not convenient for them.

I always assume I don’t know what’s going on in other people’s homes.

If a parent is really late and we have to go out, we take guest kid with us and try to reach parent to let them know. Life is too short to get annoyed about this.

I always touch base with the parents after the kids have put together a plan for overnights.
Once I'm in touch w/ the parents then its my responsibility to be talking to them to coordinate especially if we need to leave the house. I happily offer to drop off if necessary
If someone just went MIA on me, I would not invite the kid back for a while--yes its not the kids fault but complete disregard for others schedules is not OK

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

You’ve missed the point entirely. More than likely, you’re one of the parents who thinks your schedule is more important than anyone else’s.

If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

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Anonymous wrote:An hour and 15 minutes is ridiculous. Very rude and I wouldn't be hosting that kid again.

It’s not the kid’s fault!

Well, he can explain to his parents why he was not invited

My youngest is 14 and one mom recently told me she’d be 30 minutes late for pick-up then said she wasn’t coming at all and her kid should Uber to meet her, then his phone wasn’t charged so we had to wait for home to charge it. I finally just left, went about my business, and texted her that I trusted he could find his way home. WTF?? It may not be the kids fault but I can still choose whether I’m up for that BS and I’m not again anytime soon. BTW these are always the same families that Never reciprocate or host anything.

This. Never reciprocate or host.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An hour and 15 minutes is ridiculous. Very rude and I wouldn't be hosting that kid again.

It’s not the kid’s fault!

Well, he can explain to his parents why he was not invited

My youngest is 14 and one mom recently told me she’d be 30 minutes late for pick-up then said she wasn’t coming at all and her kid should Uber to meet her, then his phone wasn’t charged so we had to wait for home to charge it. I finally just left, went about my business, and texted her that I trusted he could find his way home. WTF?? It may not be the kids fault but I can still choose whether I’m up for that BS and I’m not again anytime soon. BTW these are always the same families that Never reciprocate or host anything.

I hate this. We once had a kid sleepover, pick up was going to be at 10 but we then invited the kid to join my husband, who took the boys out for mini golf (home for lunch) and then to a trampoline place and out to an early dinner. I’d texted the mom at 5 saying please pick up right at 6:00 because the boys were going to be nice and tired and it would be approx when my husband would be getting home. She said ok. She lives 5 min away by car. I texted at 6:30 and she said she was leaving right then. At 6:50 she said her husband was actually coming. I texted at 7:10 and she said sorry, she thought her husband had come. She arrived at 8 pm. I was pretty annoyed. We kept your kid for 27+ hours, paid for everything for him, and you can’t pick up when asked? Grrr

I hear you OP. Coming off two birthday parties. One kid showed up 25 minutes early, and then no parents showed to pick up. When I asked the kid if his parents were coming, he said "My dad said he could come at 8"(3 full hours after the party end time, and clearly would require me feeding him dinner). I said, OK, I will take you home then. "Nobody is home" he said. Not the kid's fault, but I was pissed.

This is annoying but did you tell the parents the pick up time or the child? I hope you didn’t say anything to or in front of the child because it’s not his fault. I remember one time in 6th grade I spent the night at a friends house when I was 11, on a weekend that my parents were moving stuff from our storage unit into our new house when we’d previously been staying in a hotel for a few weeks until it was ready. This friend had told me several times that I needed to be picked up at 4. At 10 am the mom started asking where my parents were and if they could drop me off themselves! I didn’t even know the address. She started huffing and puffing and slamming things around in the kitchen and arguing with her husband because they were supposed to be taking their younger child to see The Easter Bunny at the mall. I remember feeling so embarrassed and couldn’t wait to get out the door when my mom finally pulled up at 3:45.

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Anonymous wrote:An hour and 15 minutes is ridiculous. Very rude and I wouldn't be hosting that kid again.

It’s not the kid’s fault!

Well, he can explain to his parents why he was not invited

I would be so happy that you had my kid for a sleepover I would pick up at 8am if you asked me too

Anonymous wrote:An hour and 15 minutes is ridiculous. Very rude and I wouldn't be hosting that kid again.

It’s not the kid’s fault!